My scariest moment in show business was stepping into the Irish Arts Center for the first time at […]
Movie Reviews
Hope Springs features some good acting – Meryl Streep makes us understand how it might feel to be […]
A few years ago, I wrote the following: “[Inglourious Basterds] is certainly Quentin Tarantino’s most assured film, the […]
Part 1: Looper is a movie built on a single punchline. Some have compared it to Christopher Nolan’s […]
Baz Luhrmann’s Strictly Ballroom is a balls out melodrama that has the courage of its convictions – it’s […]
Spielberg’s Lincoln, or more accurately, Kushner and Day-Lewis’ Lincoln, is a great mixed-bag of a movie. I mean […]
Drake Doremus’ Like Crazy got some neat reviews when it came out from critics I respect, but I […]
Ruby Sparks is a creepy, crappy movie about an artist who literally creates his own reality. By my […]
In many ways it’s a meta-documentary – we see the Stones watching the film being cut together, knowing that they know what we do, which is that four people died at the climactic Altamont concert.
Mostly what John Badham did with Saturday Night Fever was to ape Scorsese, but he did one thing […]
